CUNY Academic Commons | Silvia Rivera Alfaro | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/silvira/activity/ Activity feed for Silvia Rivera Alfaro. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d4a4ce1fcb7a98a8da162a6c1f8cbaf3 Silvia Rivera Alfaro joined the group New Media Lab https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1116961/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:42:49 -0500 496bbea25dcfd3875521a27ce0b68022 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the blog post Hoy! Latinidad in the making: DH projects and collective futurities in the group Humanidades Digitales https://humanidadesdigitales.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/09/12/hoy-latinidad-in-the-making-dh-projects-and-collective-futurities/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:34:06 -0400 Hoy! Latinidad in the making: DH projects and collective futurities Continuando con el trabajo de Humanidades Digitales, empezamos el año académico con el panel “Latinidad en proceso: proyectos de […]

]]> 8c125194c465fb1fa87481c1a5247a61 Silvia Rivera Alfaro and Michelle Rendón Ochoa (she/her/ella) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1067181/ Thu, 01 May 2025 01:14:26 -0400 f1af91fbec7316241a427f170936a2cc Silvia Rivera Alfaro changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1065429/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:55:04 -0400 b8a600b5748b77a98614a0686553b193 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the blog post Del Graduate Center a Florida: el trabajo en humanidades digitales del Dr. Clayton McCarl  in the group Humanidades Digitales https://humanidadesdigitales.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/04/10/clayton-mccarl/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:18:35 -0400 Del Graduate Center a Florida: el trabajo en humanidades digitales del Dr. Clayton McCarl  El Dr. Clayton McCarl es graduado del PhD en LAILaC, cuando se llamaba Department of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and […]

]]> 8c18eb6b6bcc8a274ae97ed832497df5 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=21649 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:12:05 -0400 Reflecting on Alt Text and its Ethics Recently, I attended “Art for Alt Text and The Pedagogy of Description.” The workshop is part of Alt Text as Poetry, a project by Bojana Col […]

]]> 140047f0ee0fd90cc4a681d724892cf9 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the blog post Latinx Visions: un podcast desde el corazón de Baruch College in the group Humanidades Digitales https://humanidadesdigitales.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/04/latinx-visions-un-podcast-desde-el-corazon-de-baruch-college/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:23:00 -0500 Latinx Visions: un podcast desde el corazón de Baruch College Latinx Visions es un podcast que nace en el corazón del Black and Latino Studies de Baruch College. Sus creadorxs son las […]

]]> 888ddf63feb2a3006d8e8b0a24c2dbf2 Silvia Rivera Alfaro and Zach Muhlbauer are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1046227/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:07:00 -0500 fbf220cc86277ace870721f3c552aa7d Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the blog post Digital Scholarship Drop-In Hours in the group Digital Dissertations https://digitaldiss.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/02/18/digital-scholarship-drop-in-hours/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:56:03 -0500 Digital Scholarship Drop-In HoursThis Spring 2025, Digital Fellows are offering weekly virtual digital scholarship drop-in hours on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you […]

]]> dfcf50fc540417a60110eb590a529f23 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the blog post Manifold: colección “Libros en español” in the group Humanidades Digitales https://humanidadesdigitales.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/02/18/manifold-coleccion-libros-en-espanol/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:19:02 -0500 Manifold: colección “Libros en español” La colección Libros en Español es un proyecto desarrollado por Robin Miller, la Open Educational Technologist que dirige CUNY M […]

]]> f7d1419b0cb42f0e78e54753b561e823 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=21025 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:12:30 -0500 Doing humanidades digitales at CUNY Humanidades Digitales is the Spanish name for Digital Humanities (DH). While this might be seen as a mere translation, for many of us it […]

]]> 0afcecef194a1dedde7eecce7ce105c7 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=20646 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:21:29 -0500 Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene The Anthropocene is the age marked by the substantial consequences that human activities have caused to the Earth system (the different natural […]

]]> ae6671eefe1431d90e4a60fff9263218 Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic Digital Dissertations Accountability Group in the forum Digital Dissertations https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-dissertations/forum/topic/digital-dissertations-accountability-group/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:42:00 -0500 You can join our accountability group if you are working on a digital dissertation or an ITP digital project. We will meet on November 07 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Room 7414 and Zoom. Sign up using this form

]]> b9141baf8b5a63948b8f54ad67dc7e62 Silvia Rivera Alfaro joined the group Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1016584/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:56:03 -0400 c93a069c1be2a7b727e9edca866e4862 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the blog post Digital Dissertations Accountability Group in the group Digital Dissertations https://digitaldiss.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/10/10/digital-dissertations-accountability-group/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:17:05 -0400 Digital Dissertations Accountability Group This Fall 2024, Digital Fellows are organizing a Digital Dissertations Accountability Group to support those working on digital projects […]

]]> f460d1fec449781d5247b429cb375a82 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the blog post Un recurso abierto para enseñar español de/en Nueva York in the group Humanidades Digitales https://humanidadesdigitales.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/10/07/oer-espanol-nyc/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:30:00 -0400 Un recurso abierto para enseñar español de/en Nueva York Dentro de las humanidades digitales, encontramos materiales pedagógicos en formato digital llamados OER por “Open Educational Re […]

]]> c42f2e6368118ef047d55061bb87476a Silvia Rivera Alfaro joined the group CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1012481/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:47:41 -0400 b562b7629561ae6f3370fb3cf28d2d36 Silvia Rivera Alfaro created the site Humanidades Digitales https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1011698/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:14:42 -0400 9ec9752dd5dc31491b0cd10139feb39f Silvia Rivera Alfaro changed the description of the group Humanidades Digitales from "Este grupo es un espacio colaborativo para mejorar los recursos, información, y la comunidad en torno a las humanidades digitales en español en el Graduate Center y en CUNY. EN Inspired by conversations from a joint Mina Rees Library / GC Digital Initiatives conversation on March 23, 2018, this group is a collaborative endeavor to improve the resources, information, and community around humanidades digitales at the CUNY Graduate Center and beyond." to "This group is a collaborative endeavor to improve the resources, information, and community around Humanidades Digitales at the CUNY and beyond. This is a space for DH produced in Spanish and the borderlands of English/Spanish Academia." https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1011690/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:28:34 -0400 9cf8ff3f464b7cb941185f3a844f235e Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the doc GIS/Mapping Resources in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/987353/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:09:11 -0400 5f009e38ea397c21a88e29ccc8602dd8 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=7042 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:16:09 -0400 Digital Women: Commemorating Women's History Month March is Women’s History Month and I want to bring that to the digital fellows’ blog. First, I want to say that when I mention w […]

]]> 021bce736df01d0f8902a59dd5bbd45b Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic Exhibit: Data Through Design in the forum GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/exhibit-data-through-design/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:11:32 -0400 This is an exhibition on data and design that includes maps: https://datathroughdesign.com/ It is the one I mentioned in the meeting. I hope you have a chance to check it out!

]]> fb5fb36ccfb0eeaa05cde2a772888361 Silvia Rivera Alfaro replied to the topic GIS User Group Meeting Tomorrow 2-4 in the forum GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=164779 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:39:11 -0400 Hi everyone! For those joining on Zoom today:

https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/88110689411?pwd=M0pNYVY1aHNjc3B4Y283WER6a3YzQT09

Meeting ID: 881 1068 9411

Passcode: 988942

]]> f216056765676ec4946c059adc05e4a2 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6961 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:05:06 -0500 The smartwatch dilemmaI started to think about purchasing a smartwatch amid a strong need to improve my health. Could this tool keep health information that […]

]]> 859bc9ec25141d1d722d6f4af2938c46 Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic CFP: LAILaC Students' Conference in the forum GC Humanidades Digitales https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gc-humanidades-digitales/forum/topic/cfp-lailac-students-conference/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:43:01 -0500 LAILaC Students’ Conference (April 11 and 12) is receiving proposals in digital humanities related to Latinx, Latin American, and Iberian Cultures. The deadline for proposals is Feb 16.

Info: congresolailac.commons.gc.cuny.edu

]]> e5d6e1d247564c6ee7f2418f0f60101c Silvia Rivera Alfaro's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/956910/ Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:21:16 -0500 2d1a06d0439a73ecf797acfaadd6a3e9 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6877 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:36:33 -0500 Geochicas: beyond map making In the last Digital Fellows’ post, Anna Corbett shared a wonderful post on Mapping and Its Discontents. Here I write shortly about […]

]]> 6d5a99f5eecac750f53b631107bef691 Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic Two conferences related to mapping in the forum GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/two-conferences-related-to-mapping/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:53:00 -0500 There is an annual Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference. The next will take place in Belem (Brazil). While the info is still not up, I thought of sharing the site in case anyone could be interested in exploring the info on past events and learn if this could be an event for you: https://foss4g.org/

If you work with Geographies…[Read more]

]]> 5618f3e0d1a63ac4d677a6ed17af141c Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Secret Commons https://secret.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=19 Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:22:24 -0500 Dan Perjovschi at GC Room 5409 Dan Perjovschi is a leading contemporary artist who mixes comics with political commentary.

]]> 6fe99613e5eba706a8e68bc27497e0f7 Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic Invitación: evento sobre repositorio in the forum GC Humanidades Digitales https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gc-humanidades-digitales/forum/topic/invitacion-evento-sobre-repositorio/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:12:10 -0400 Hola a todas,

El viernes 03 de noviembre estaremos presentando sobre nuestro Repositorio de Lingüística Feminista. En este caso, se trata de un avance que hemos hecho gracias a la Provost Digital Innovation Grant. El evento será a las 4 p.m. en el Lounge de LAILaC (Room 4116) en español. Contaremos con la participación de la profesora e inve…[Read more]

]]> ef50f2fb52d4815c380cdd6ebc488efd Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic CFP: 17th Annual CUNY Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day Symposium in the forum GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/cfp-17th-annual-cuny-geographic-information-systems-gis-day-symposium-2/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:58:03 -0400 Information via Professor Kieren Torres Howard:

Call for presenters (oral and poster):  17th Annual CUNY Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day Symposium

Wednesday, November 15, 2023,12:00  Noon – 4:00 PM 

Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in Earth & Environmental Sciences (EES) & Economics in collaboration with the Center for Digital Humani…[Read more]

]]> 9f00f85d574ccef3583750d19e4598e9 Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic CFP: 17th Annual CUNY Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day Symposium in the forum GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/cfp-17th-annual-cuny-geographic-information-systems-gis-day-symposium/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:57:27 -0400 Information via Professor Kieren Torres Howard:

Call for presenters (oral and poster):  17th Annual CUNY Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day Symposium

Wednesday, November 15, 2023,12:00  Noon – 4:00 PM 

Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in Earth & Environmental Sciences (EES) & Economics in collaboration with the Center for Digital Humani…[Read more]

]]> 4443eefa93e95460dda2f215fcf94294 Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic Conference in Costa Rica in the forum GC Humanidades Digitales https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gc-humanidades-digitales/forum/topic/conference-in-costa-rica/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:31:36 -0400 Conference in Costa Rica in 2024 (Nov 9-13): 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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]]> 94a1be6eb3939dd3c357acce1cd3e0a0 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the doc GIS/Mapping Resources in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/951292/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:19:12 -0400 41f272df89e05313018d09be1ac259f2 Silvia Rivera Alfaro and Anick S. Rolland (she/they) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/950988/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 16:39:22 -0400 43ceefb36eb5c125a152e285f262ffa1 Silvia Rivera Alfaro's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/950948/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 01:51:49 -0400 e5005314274357637ca93c8a0bfa0166 Silvia Rivera Alfaro created the site Secret Commons https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/950947/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 01:23:04 -0400 fc9cf0a3f7af01c66a72d225e297662c Silvia Rivera Alfaro and Natalia Villarroel-Torres (She/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/950830/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:35:17 -0400 18d5bc73aa2ac96e33cc1a042c3e1880 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the doc GIS/Mapping Resources in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/950271/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 02:15:07 -0400 244bad4bac47668b3f77a1083531401a Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the doc GIS/Mapping Resources in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/950073/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:57:28 -0400 2e599c04e433b7389ccc3b58860c31a1 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the doc GIS/Mapping Resources in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/950006/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:38:30 -0400 99606b526d360f2098160cd0f229fa08 Silvia Rivera Alfaro edited the doc GIS/Mapping Resources in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/949974/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:05:11 -0400 101b74438c197bd099862214dfe562b5 Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic CFP: Simposio Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Humanidades Digitales 2024 (Quito) in the forum GC Humanidades Digitales https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gc-humanidades-digitales/forum/topic/cfp-simposio-latinoamericano-y-caribeno-de-humanidades-digitales-2024-quito/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 22:42:30 -0400 Está abierta la recepción de ponencias para el Simposio Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Humanidades Digitales que se llevará a cabo del 4-6 de Julio del próximo año en Quito, Ecuador.

Info: https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-symposium/espanol 

English here:

There is a CFP for a Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium 2024, that w…[Read more]

]]> 44149eaa1716e4f16ae91957a1648e36 Silvia Rivera Alfaro changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/947229/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:55:33 -0400 2682a9f6c1e53805377f9b338818a5f5 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=19888 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:20:47 -0400 Opening our house, opening our lab!On September 6th, friendly conversations about digital tools, methods, and opportunities at the GC lit up room 7414 at the GC. For the […]

]]> a67324775e5330bb2383415308bd04fb Silvia Rivera Alfaro's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/943559/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:26:15 -0400 6e08a9d9e4ffbf38b1d024fa73060417 Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6655 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:23:39 -0400 <strong>WordPress: Thinking about the aesthetics</strong> Now that we discuss the basics of creating content, I would like to dedicate a small section to the basics of the appearance of your […]

]]> 6cc2f6bef5fcec77148a01aef6d6222f Silvia Rivera Alfaro wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6651 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:54:15 -0500 <strong>WordPress: How to create content  </strong> There are two main options for creating content on WordPress: pages and posts.  Though they look similar, there is an important […]

]]> b79663f4dbaed4b5d506a3b490b5789b Silvia Rivera Alfaro replied to the topic DARC Spring 2023 - When2meet in the forum PUG – Python User’s Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=136288 Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:05:53 -0500 Hi Allison,

 

We will be meeting this Friday, February 24th at 10 am on Zoom. We will discuss “Please stop calling things archives.” We will talk about the upcoming activities for the semester.

 

Best,

 

Silvia

]]> 1a589df896951c96709092eaebe8f27e Silvia Rivera Alfaro started the topic DARC meeting: Friday February 24th at 10am in the forum DARC (Digital Archive Research Collective) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/darc-digital-archive-research-collective/forum/topic/darc-meeting-friday-february-24th-at-10am/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:58:55 -0500 Hi DARC community,

 

Thank you all for responding with your availability – looks like Fridays 10am works best for us. Our first meeting will be Friday February 24th at 10am. We will be meeting on Zoom to discuss “Please stop calling things archives.” Please join us also to discuss DARC activities, including potential field trips to physical arc…[Read more]

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